Four More Weeks Until Summer

It's been about a year since I've updated, and in that year I've started working in the school system in a clerical capacity. It's been a long school year and I'm ready for summer already. To be honest I'm pretty burned out, even though I'm not in the classroom full time. Kids are absolutely brutal. I've been called a "one star sub" because I wanted them to do their work instead of playing games, I've been told I suck by a kid who felt he could do whatever he wanted to, mocked by an entire class, and then called ugly all this week alone. It makes me reconsider wanting to work with kids if this is how terrible they are. 

I've been offered my own first grade classroom, though I'm not sure if I'll take it. I'm still not one hundred percent on classroom anything so why they'd feel I was up to taking on my own classroom is beyond me. I'm currently enrolled in classes in my local college's educator preparation institute to prepare me for the classroom should I go that direction. I'm qualified now to teach english in grades 6 to 12, though elementary is where I have my year of experience thus far. 

My coworker has encouraged me to take on an inclusion role, so I'll be in and out of the classroom and get to see many different classroom management styles. The only problem there is there hasn't been an inclusion role come up, just VE jobs aplenty in my district, and I know for a fact I'm not ready to take on a full on VE classroom on my own. I have enough problems with one of them that I'm already in on occasion as a sub. 

So far I've liked kindergarten the most. They are tiny and cute and still in that stage where they are eager to please the grown ups that are around. They are dead honest, don't get me wrong, but I've never had an issue with a kindergartener telling me that I suck because I'm not letting them do what they want. They are so much easier to redirect into a different activity. 

Right now? I'm just tired. It's been a long school year and I'm ready for that lovely two month break.